Duel With Knives In a Watertown Darkroom
Francisco Paparala and Frank Rich fought with knives in a locked 9A Mt. Auburn Street room in Watertown over a dispute. Neighbors alerted police who arrived as the room was in darkness. Russo escaped as officers entered. Paparala and Rich were hospitalized and charged with mutual assault with intent to kill.
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Francisco Paparala
Frank Rich
Mt. Auburn Street
Watertown
Paparala
Rich
Ale
Michael Russo
Russo
Senate moves to block direct nominations with referendum
An attempt to block direct nominations is planned in the Senate by attaching a referendum to the bill. The move has Republican support, with the party machine backing the effort.
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Senate
Grandstand Lifted by Wind Storm Injures Dozens at Pekin Game
A wind storm during a Pekin baseball game lifted the grandstand and dropped it on a crowd, injuring 20 people including 12 players. Sidney Mangus suffered a broken leg and internal injuries, with others recovering. The storm also killed two boys in Pekin and caused extensive property damage across the city.
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Granite City
Ill
Sidney Mangus
Pekin
Lil
Peoria
Clyde Lakers
Frank Woodley
Louis Schaefer
Illinois
Boley Ice Company
Dakota Dans Hotel Closed in Melrose
The famous Dakota Dan's Hotel on Foster Street Melrose and the Daniel Blake Russell House have gone out of business. The sign with the long-missing name vanished from the front of the building after Dakota Dan and his wife left for Minneapolis to visit Valen tine Schwirtz, his wife's father, due to the elder man's illness.
Postoffice Surplus Reported by Hitchcock
Postmaster-General Hitchcock announces the Postoffice Department has wiped out its deficit for the fiscal year ending June 30 and reports a surplus of 1,000,000 dollars in the treasury to the department's credit.
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Washington
Hitchcock
Postoffice Department
Treasury
Benedict Yacht Virginia Runs Aground Near Atlas Cay Light
New Orleans May 28 A wireless report says the yacht Virginia owned by E C Benedict went ashore at 730 this morning about 90 miles north of Atlas Cay light, 90 miles west of Havana. All aboard are safe. Commodore Benedict sails with Colgate Hoyt James McCutcheon Harry Rowe Shelley and others. The 200 foot steel yacht was built in the United States from George L Watson plans and chartered from Isaac Stern. Benedict is a noted yachtsman who recently returned from Bermuda after a 30 mph hurricane passage.
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New Orleans
Virginia
E. C. Benedict
New York
Atlas Cay
Havana
Commodore Benedict
Amazon
Colgate Hoyt
James McCutcheon
Harry Rowe Shelley
F. Montgomery Smith
Harry E. Robinson
Lamont Dominick
Edward Beers
George L. Watson
Isaac Stern
Oneida
Bermuda
Motorcycle Crash on Harvard Street Injures Four
Paul De Silva of Roxbury and J Parker Boyden of Brookline, with his two sons, were injured when De Silva crashed his motorcycle into Boyden’s car at Harvard School streets and Aspinwall Avenue. De Silva was unconscious, then transported by Boyden to a drugstore before returning home.
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Harvard Street
Brookline
Boston
Paul de Silva
Linwood Square
Roxbury
J. Parker Boyden
Cypress Street
Harvard
School Streets
Aspinwall Avenue
de Silva
Mr. Boyden
Rescue 4 in Spy Pond Drowning Incident
Four fishermen and two companions escaped drowning as a canoe sank in Spy Pond Arlington while authorities and bystanders pulled others from the water. The article lists multiple names and residences across Arlington Roxbury Cambridge Dorchester and nearby towns noting deaths of two Arlington women and two male companions.
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Rescue
Spy Pond
Arlington
Nolan
William Caldwell
Harvard Square
Cambridge
Jermie Foohy
Park Street
May Sanders
Massachusetts Avenue
Charles Hollinsworth
Dudley Street
Roxbury
John Smith
Columbia Road
Dorchester
Four in Canoe Rescued After Boat Takes On Water
A party of four in a rented canoe mid lake on Pleasant street side faced a sinking craft as water filled the hull. Smith jumped overboard to steady the vessel, Caldwell and Officer Nolan arrived to tow the group to shore, where all reached safety with minor distress.
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Pleasant Street
Smith
Caldwell
Nolan
Tragic Canoe Capsizing Ends Pontoon Lake Start
At Pontoonso Lake opening day a canoe capsized causing the death of Arthur Plumb a 17 year old boy. He and a companion had been on the water only moments when a bravado rocking tipped the craft and forced them into the water. Plumb drowned after cramps and unconsciousness. rescuers could not revive him.
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Pittsfield
Pontoosoe Lake
Arthur Plumb
Plumb
Drowning After Fall From Launch Off Rockland Harbor
Cecil Linnekin a 20 year old bookkeeper fell overboard from a launch in Rockland harbor as lines and life preservers were within reach. He failed to grab them and drowned after dazing on the fall. The bell rope detached and he sank. body not recovered at this time.
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Rockland
Cecil Linnekin
Linnekin
Balloon carries two aeronauts to church in Topsfield
In Topsfield Massachusetts on Memorial Day two Boston aeronauts Charles J. Gliolden and John J. Van Valkenburgh landed a hot air balloon at the Methodist church and attended services, an event described as an everyday affair. Meantime in Saco Maine a 10 year old boy John Riddell drowned after a boat capsized over Bradbury dam on the Saco River. two companions escaped.
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Topsfield
Boston
Charles J. Gliolden
Everything Aeronautical
John J. van Valkenburg
W. H. McLean
Sacs
John Riddell
Bradbury
Saco
John Brown
John Connolly
Riddell
Brown
Connolly
Young Riddell
Reaching for match ends in drowning on Lake Quinsigamond
Gottlieb Webber of East Cambridge drowned when a canoe capsized on Lake Quinsigamond after he reached for a match. His companions Arthur Rauche of East Cambridge and J L Hartman of Somerville survived with help from men in a nearby canoe. Webber, 40 and married, was the sole fatality.
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Worcester
Lake Quinsigamond
Gottlieb Webber
East Cambridge
Webber
Arthur Rauche
J. L. Hartman
Somerville
Balloon ascent from Towell ends near coast at sunrise
A group gathers as two aeronauts launch from Towell early yesterday and sail eastward on a light wind. The balloon rises smoothly, passes above church spires with the sea in view, and begins to descend around sunrise as Mr Guden deflates the bag.
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Towell
New England
Glidden
Sporting Scores Highlights and Standings
Yesterday's results from AMERICAN and NATIONAL leagues include St Louis Chicago Pittsburg Detroit Cleveland in 10 innings 7 Cincinnati 6. Miller leads the National League in batting while McInnis heads the American. Boston prepares to return home after a four-game stretch in two days at Washington Nationals and heads west. Batting and fielding averages for Boston teams are noted.
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Miller
McInnis
American
Red Sox
Boston
Washington Nationals
West
Oston
Banker Faces Black Hand Threat Near Lynn Streets
Leonardo Squillaciotti, a North End banker, received a Black Hand letter demanding $1000 under penalty of death. He alerted police and did not deposit the money, fearing a murderous attack on himself and family. He runs an Italian bank at 4 North Square and a store at 330 North Street. threats follow recent arson attempts on his Endicott Street block.
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Leonardo Squillaciotti
North End
Bristow Street
Lynn
North Square
North Street
Squillaciotti
Endicott Street
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Firebug Sets Tenement Blaze Injuring Two Firemen
North End residents reel in fear as a repeated arsonist targets 1612 Cross street. The latest blaze caused several hundred dollars in damage and left two firefighters needing treatment at Relier Hospital after officers and plainclothes teams had patrolled the area for weeks.
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North End
Cross Street
Relier Hospital
Fire in Polish tenants building near Haymarket square
A late fire, started in a rubbish pile under a stairway, swept to the roof of a building at 161-162 Cross Street near Haymarket square. The mostly Polish tenants faced smoke and trapped exits while police and firemen fought the blaze and investigated a bold arson attempt.
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William and
Edwin Sheare
Milk Street
A. Bergman
Haymarket Square
Cross Street
Pelegrino Cemi
North End
No. 161-2
Washington Street
J. M. Lewis
Station 1
Cemi
Turing Cemi
McEachern
Lewis
Fair Weather Forecast for Boston and England Monday
A compact forecast notes fair weather for Boston and vicinity on Monday with likely fair Tuesday and cooler conditions. In England the outlook calls for fair weather Monday, cooler in the west, with Tuesday also fair and somewhat cooler and moderate variable winds becoming west.
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Boston
Washington
England
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